The Fundação Bienal de São Paulo launches the traveling exhibitions program of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás (MAC), in Goiânia. The program will travel to more than ten cities in Brazil and abroad throughout 2026. In partnership with the Government of Goiás, through the State Secretariats of Culture and of Retomada (Economic Recovery), the city hosts a traveling show for the first time, featuring a selection from the exhibition Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice. Consolidated for over a decade, the program will be open to the public from March 3 to April 19.
Held programmatically since 2011, the traveling exhibitions program has become a fundamental extension of the Bienal de São Paulo, allowing the works and debates presented at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion to be reconfigured in dialogue with diverse local contexts, activating new readings and relationships with audiences. In its 36th edition, this movement reaches new territories.
In Goiânia, the traveling selection is curated by Thiago de Paula Souza and brings together works by fourteen participants: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Alberto Pitta, Ernest Cole, Gervane de Paula, Hajra Waheed, Julianknxx, Juliana dos Santos, Márcia Falcão, Ming Smith, Oscar Murillo, Song Dong, and Goiás-based artists Sallisa Rosa and the collective Sertão Negro, highlighting dialogue with the territory hosting the exhibition.
For Andrea Pinheiro, President of the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, arriving in Goiânia for the first time is an important step for the Foundation. “With each edition of the Bienal de São Paulo, we have sought to expand our reach and ensure that what was presented at the Pavilion continues to resonate in other cities across the country. Expanding the traveling exhibitions program is part of our commitment to decentralizing the Brazilian art circuit, creating more opportunities to connect with diverse audiences and strengthening access, in different regions, to the works, debates, and experiences that define the Bienal,” she states.
According to the State Secretary of Culture, Yara Nunes, the arrival of the Bienal de São Paulo in Goiás is the direct result of a consistent public policy, built transversally by the State Government. “Hosting, for the first time, a stage of the Bienal’s traveling program in Goiânia demonstrates that Goiás today has the infrastructure, technical capacity, and, above all, the audience to host major cultural events of national and international relevance. This is a collective effort involving different government departments and reflects the State’s commitment to strengthening culture as a strategic axis of development. In addition, this event energizes the cultural production chain, fosters tourism, stimulates the creative economy, and positions Goiás within the national circuit of major exhibitions,” she emphasizes.
Beyond the circulation of artworks, the itinerant exhibition program is structured around a transversal educational axis, including training for local teams, online and in-person meetings, pedagogical follow-up, and activities for different audiences, such as guided tours, lectures, teacher workshops, and educational activities for students.
“Launching the traveling exhibitions program in Goiânia underscores the importance of new displacements, when works leave the Pavilion and begin to coexist with other temporalities, landscapes, and ways of seeing. At MAC GO, the program does not arrive as a replica of what was presented in São Paulo; it is reconfigured through the space, through dialogue among the selected participants, and through local practices that intersect with the museum. It is precisely in this encounter that the meaning of humanity as practice gains new layers,” reflects Thiago de Paula Souza, co-curator of the 36th Bienal de São Paulo.
Accessibility and inclusion
To expand accessibility for the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo has extended its accessible audio guide program to the traveling exhibitions. The exhibition features audio guides for Akinbode Akinbiyi, Gervane de Paula, and Julianknxx, accompanied by Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) videos.
The exhibition also offers texts in Plain Language about Alberto Pitta, Juliana dos Santos, Márcia Falcão, Sallisa Rosa, and Song Dong, in addition to information about the title of the 36th Bienal, its conceptual team, curatorial proposal, visual identity, and architecture. A visitor guide in Plain Language, large print, and Braille is available at the exhibition entrance. The Bienal Prática web app can also be used for the artists indicated in the signage.
Another way to enhance the visit is through the Bloomberg Connects app, which provides further information about all artists in the exhibition and suggested visiting routes. With the app open, visitors simply enter the number indicated on the label next to the artwork to learn more.
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36th Bienal de São Paulo – Not All Travellers Walk Roads – Of Humanity as Practice
chief curator: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
co-curators: Alya Sebti, Anna Roberta Goetz, Thiago de Paula Souza
co-curator at large: Keyna Eleison
strategy and communications advisor: Henriette Gallus
deputy co-curators: André Pitol, Leonardo Matsuhei
Goiânia – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás
curator: Thiago de Paula Souza
exhibition design: Tiago Guimarães
Mar 3 – Apr 19, 2026
Tue – Fri, 9 am – 7 pm
Sat – Sun, 2 pm – 7 pm
Centro Cultural Oscar Niemeyer
Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Goiás (MAC)
Av. Deputado Jamel Cecílio, Qd. Gleba, nº 4,490 – Setor Fazenda Gameleira
Goiânia, Brazil
free admission
the exhibition will be closed on March 20, 21, and 22.